Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.
A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...
The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who've spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single cells and forming multicellular structures. This ability to alternate ...
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...
A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life—driven by a ring of ...
Key HighlightsResearchers developed a new method to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining or losing whole chromosomes.